Join me in this journey and whatever other mischief I encounter on the way. The final destination is publication and beyond, but the route is far from exact, and my sense of direction, both literally and figuratively, is terrible.

It’s sure to be a great adventure!

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Yay! My first comment on the blog; I can always count on you, Rhondo. Thanks for joining me on my journey. It’s okay if you’re behind in your FB and email. I enjoy the emails you do manage to get out, and am always interested to know where you are now.

Where I am now … Cambridge. Working: MNR in Guelph.
I still hate commuting, but here I am commuting with all the other people who don’t live where they work.
Contract end: March 30. Provincial budget will be tabled a day or 2 before the that. My office wont get their budget until April.
Word on possible extension until budget’s final: LOL! You were joking, right?
Other job prospects: nothing promising.

Almost as frustrating as trying to get published … I must be a masochist

Hi celenagaia, thanks for visiting and for joining me in my adventures. You are so right – we are all looking for ourselves, and constantly learning new things about ourselves that we like and don’t like through the people that we come to like or not like. I think all people in the world are just separate pieces of the same whole, and that we all have the capacity to become each other.

Absolutely. The human race is a scattered jigsaw. I was only an hour bemoaning this fact to my partner; it’s so goddamn difficult to find people of a similar wavelength. Similar interests, easy enough – but it’s all redundant if they can’t laugh at and with you, and let themselves receive the same treatment.

I’m on the hunt for unbiased critiquing of my written work, the chance to critique someone elses, and exchanges of writing technique/building blocks. That OK with you?

One of my goals in starting this blog was indeed to meet other writers and share skills, etc. We should find out if our specific goals are compatible in this regard. Let’s talk: janna dot vancouver at gmail.com

Hi JC, thanks for stopping by. I do try to express myself clearly here, so I’m glad you find that to be the case. 🙂 I know I have many adventures, great and small, to go before I’m done, and I look forward to living them, loving them, and learning from them!

Hi Janna, your life and mine are very similar. I have been in eight of ten Canadian and have lived in five of them: Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. I love back packing. I am also an introvert writing a book.

Hi Dennis. Always nice to meet a fellow Canadian. You’ve lived in most of the provinces I haven’t (with the exception of Ontario, where I lived for 10 years). I hear that Manitoba and Saskatchewan are going to be the next big thing, so maybe one of them will be my next stop.

I think most writers are introverts – or at least have a well-developed introverted side – otherwise, we’d never be able to stand all the time spend alone the writer process requires. Since my novel is in two volumes and I’ve only finished the first one, I don’t technically consider draft complete, but I’ve the goal to finish it before the end of the year. Wish me luck! 🙂

Now let’s see, did you ever live in some of the other cities where I’ve lived besides Vancouver –Toronto, Calgary, London, Kitchener-Waterloo. Yes, in my blog. Canada can be contrasting at times —what an underestimate, since now I’m in Alberta.

Toronto – check! London and K-W, no, but I’ve spent time in both. The only time I’ve spent in Alberta is in the Calgary and Edmonton airports. I really should go visit one or both cities; I want to see as much of Canada as I can. Do you like living in Calgary?

Hi Janna! Enjoying your blog and finding some encouragement to start mine (soon). I didn’t realise you had also written a fantasy novel. Don’t let it die on the shelf….you never know what can happen. My fantasy novel is the one I find myself going to more than others. I, too, have doubts about whether it would get published, but I do want to finish it. Good luck with everything!

Hi Norine, thanks for visiting and commenting. Yes, get your blog started – I will follow it!

My fantasy novel was the biggest disaster ever, emphasis on “biggest”. I have plans to re-write it as historical fiction for my next writing project. I’m actually really excited to give it another go. I think I’m a much better writing now with the skills needed to pull it off. Good luck to you too!

Hi Janna, I have enjoyed your blog since I followed you and I have nominated your blog for the Creative bloggers award because I think your work here is great. Kindly accept my Congratulations…here is a link to the post http://wp.me/p2EkOW-an